New book, Saving Your Brain, unravels the mystery of the many chronic illnesses ravaging the American population today
If we could travel back in time to 1920, or even 1950, and ask anyone on the street, “What is Alzheimer’s?” probably 100 out of 100 would answer, “I don’t know.” Alzheimer’s disease was so rare in the first half of the 20th Century, in fact, that most of the family doctors of the time […]
If you’re doing this, your body can’t trim down
A woman at my gym used to finish the daily SPIN class, sweaty and exhausted, then jump on the elliptical machine for an intensive 45-minute workout. Over time, I watched her gain weight, lose upper body tone, and turn flabby all over. What this poor woman didn’t understand was that her daily exercise regimen was doing more harm than good. You see, when your body is under stress, it produces the […]
